Homemade Chocolate + Chocolate-Covered Strawberries

“Hey, Mom and Dad, we wanted to do something nice for you, so we took the organic strawberries you picked up at CostCo and the unsweetened cacao you had in your pantry and the butter and maple syrup from your fridge and, look! We made you chocolate-covered strawberries! Sorry they’re not that sweet. I like chocolate dark.”

Give me three days at my parents’ house and there I am, 10 years old again, wandering through Walgreen’s with the $5 my mom has given me, looking for something to buy for her for Mother’s Day. (I picked some sort of bath salts. She probably still has them.) My parents are pretty open-handed with their kids, always outgiving us in every physical way, from putting me through college to paying for my braces to covering my and Tim’s entire wedding costs, right down to the honeymoon that we still talk about once a week. When we come home to visit them, even as 30-something adults, their kitchen is like a grocery store, filled with food we can play with (and we have). This July 4th weekend I’ve been thankful for how both my parents and my country have filled my life with a lot of freedom to learn and to grow and to see things that I might not have been able to see without their help. I’m also thankful they are the ones God has given me, specifically, sovereignly, because of nothing I have asked for or done on my own.

These are the strawberries we gave them yesterday, with the ingredients they gave us, and, if we’re being fully transparent, we ate more of them than they did.

Chocolate-covered strawberries feel so impressive and decadent but they are SO quick to make. We're talking 15 minutes. You can always just melt your favorite chocolate bar, but we enjoyed making our own in this version. The same chocolate will work well as a topping on ice cream, FYI, and while you may use coconut oil instead of butter, we are partial to the rich flavor butter imparts.

In a small saucepan over medium heat, melt together the chocolate and butter until smooth. Add maple syrup to taste and remove from heat when you like the sweetness level. Add a dash of sea salt.

Arrange strawberries on a parchment-lined dish or baking sheet. Holding them by their greens, dip into chocolate, rolling to cover around the sides. Lift, let chocolate drip off, and place on parchment. Repeat until you're out of chocolate or out of strawberries, whichever comes first (the size of your strawberries will affect how many you can make).

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ohmyheavens i love you for posting this!!!!! i took a tour of the mast brothers chocolate factory last week and as they were explaining how to make chocolate, i thought “hey, this doesn’t seem tooooooo difficult to make at home!” and wam, bam, here it is! love love love.

Thank you Honey, They were delicious, and I too like the darker chocolate ! Costco did have the most beautiful
organic strawberries and blueberries ! We just love when you and Tim come home and bake and cook for us. The
Fruit Galette was so good ! In fact this 4th of July was truly a taste-fest so enjoyed by us all ! All our love…………..

These look like such a treat! Yesterday, I bought 4 pounds fresh, local strawberries at the farmers’ market. Going to make some jam today 🙂 Oh and children stay children no matter how old they are, right?

Ha, I rang my dad last week and asked him to drive across London at 7pm on a Friday night so that he could pick up the anniversary present that I bought for him and my mother. We never really grow up do we?

I loooove chocolate covered strawberries! I’ve never tried to do it myself because there is this amazing place 2 mins from where I live that does prosecco and chocolate-covered strawberries evenings once a week and I always go haha! Defo bookmarking the recipe though cuz I really ought to try it at some point. xx

Ooh, that sounds good! Someone on Instagram just told me to try lime zest on top next time, which is supposed to be a real game changer, and I am in. You def have to try making your own sometime though. It’s so fun!

Awww that’s so so cute Shanna!! I totally understand cause that’s how me and my hubby’s parents treat us!! We thank god for that every day and hey they must have been delighted with what you guys did with the berries they gave you!!

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